Former
Indonesian president says Bush is pursuing a war for personal reasons
In
an interview for the BBC World Service's The World Today programme,
former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid accused President
Bush of lying and said he was pursuing a war for personal reasons.
Mr
Wahid warned the Indonesian government against clamping down on
expressions of Islamic solidarity.
In
the interview with Christopher Gunness - who is in Jakarta to co-present
The World Today for East Asia - Abdurrahman Wahid accused President
Bush of acting "out of dual political considerations"
and lying.
He
assessed the president's actions as those of Freudian nature, saying
that he had to succeed where his father failed.
Abdurrahman
Wahid said the Indonesian government would make a mistake if it
saw Islamic solidarity as a threat to itself and tried to curb it.
Alleging
that the majority of Indonesian society was opposed to the current
leadership, Mr Wahid claimed a clampdown on expressions of Islamic
solidarity would "further aggravate" the government's
stand.
Abdurahman
Wahid's interview with The World Today can be accessed online at
bbcworldservice.com/programmes.
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